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Title: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: Esben Oxholm on February 25, 2012, 02:19:37 PM
Hi guys.
I did this coffee cup design that I want a great render of, but I've got some problems. The ceramic material is blown out. I've tried to fix it by adjusting the gamma and brightness sliders, but I can't get a nice result. Any help would be great! :)

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2388699/render01.jpg)

Furthermore, ideas on angles, setup of the cup, props and other stuff is appreciated.

Best regards
Esben
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: EGON on February 25, 2012, 05:40:37 PM
What are your settings ?
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: Esben Oxholm on February 26, 2012, 04:18:17 AM
Quote from: EGON on February 25, 2012, 05:40:37 PM
What are your settings ?

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2388699/coffecup_settings.jpg)
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: youknowwho4eva on February 27, 2012, 08:14:16 AM
I used soft touch white for a ceramic piece I was designing, I think it has the look I was going for. You should get this 3D printed! I really like it.
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: Josh3D on February 27, 2012, 09:19:46 AM
That's a cool design idea for sure! Could use a little more time on the rendering as it's a bit grainy, but the color and composition is great. Oh, a side note, would be a cool 3D print, but not good for drinking. 3D print ABS isn't really food grade :)
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: youknowwho4eva on February 28, 2012, 05:55:37 AM
That's why there is 3D printed ceramics ;-) http://www.shapeways.com/materials/ceramics
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: Esben Oxholm on February 28, 2012, 07:26:24 AM
I'm glad you like the idea. A 3d print could be really cool. Didn't know it was possible to 3d print ceramics. That's awesome!

I tried to do the scene from scratch, and added some real coffee and steam post.
It's still too bright though... and using soft white as material wasn't better.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2388699/coffecup_02.jpg)
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: fario on February 28, 2012, 08:19:46 AM
wow, the coffee material is perfect, bravo!

Antoine
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: fario on February 28, 2012, 08:27:02 AM
Hello,

Perhaps you could visit my post "J12" in the "materials" section, to give more realism to your porcelain?  :-\

Antoine
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: fario on February 28, 2012, 08:54:51 AM
just a example.
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: Esben Oxholm on February 28, 2012, 01:02:48 PM
Thanks. Antoine. You post helped me alot. The material is the same as the J12.
I think it looks much better now, but it's a bit too dark...
If I raise the brightness the material begins to burn out.

@Antoine: Do you have some advice on the gamma and brightness settings? Maybe a specific setting I could try?

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2388699/coffecup_03.jpg)
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: guest84672 on February 28, 2012, 05:31:22 PM
Increase your gamma to 2.0 (default) and it will look much better.
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: Esben Oxholm on February 29, 2012, 08:22:46 AM
Thanks Thomas. Now it begins to look great.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2388699/coffecup_04.jpg)

What do you think? :)
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: PhilippeV8 on February 29, 2012, 10:59:36 AM
I knew it ... the J12 stuff was going to help this render.  Good thinking !
It's some awesome improvement and inspiring to see how you can have a result, some people would settle with, but with a little more effort can get totaly realistic.

Plus, notice how with this material the point of the design becomes clear ... in all previous renders, one could not see for sure that this is 1 cup, not 3 on a pile with coffee in the top one.  (which was what I thought it was initially ... then after a while i figured it could be 1 cup ... now you can clearly see it)
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: guest84672 on February 29, 2012, 11:00:54 AM
Yes - you nailed it - AWESOME!
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: tibet on March 03, 2012, 01:02:21 PM
hi Roargh,
the coffee effect is amazing, would you mind to share wih other keyshots fans some tutorial how you create such a realistic effect please?
thanks in advance !
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: PhilippeV8 on March 03, 2012, 01:58:58 PM
he said: "added some real coffee and steam post" ... so the coffee is not in the KS render ;)
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: Esben Oxholm on March 04, 2012, 05:33:25 AM
@tibet: As PhilippeV8 wrote, it's not done in KS.
It's cut out from a real photo and blended with the render in photoshop :)
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: Josh3D on March 05, 2012, 09:26:26 AM
Wow, very nice. Such an improvement!
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: plbb on March 05, 2012, 09:10:57 PM
Is this translucent material?
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: Esben Oxholm on March 06, 2012, 07:00:12 AM
@plbb: Yup, it is. I used the settings from the first post in this thread: http://keyshot.com/forum/index.php?topic=2848.msg12060#msg12060

:)
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: Esben Oxholm on March 08, 2012, 10:54:03 AM
Final render:
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2388699/coffee%20cup%20final.jpg)

I'm planning on doing a tutorial on how to model and render a coffee cup and add the coffee and steam in photoshop. What do you like the most:
Screenshots from the process with written explanations or a screen recording with spoken explanations?

:)
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: guest84672 on March 08, 2012, 11:55:35 AM
I think a screen recording would be best. Thank you - your efforts are much appreciated.
Title: Re: Design for fun: Coffee cup
Post by: PhilippeV8 on March 08, 2012, 03:34:52 PM
Is this material added to v3.1 ??